Hummer-hating environmentalists won’t be happy to hear that the Pentagon wants a flying Humvee — and gave $1 million to Pratt & Whitney’s Rocketdyne division in Canoga Park to design one. Reports LA Times: “With the proliferation of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, on the ground, a hovering Humvee would be an ideal way to keep soldiers out of harm’s way, Pentagon officials said in announcing the award.”

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KPCC's Molly Peterson on a Gilligan's Island style tour of environmental stories in and affecting Southern California. Named for the Yvor Winters poem: "The slow Pacific swell stirs on the sand/Sleeping to sink away, withdrawing land..."
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